Open AccessA New Graph to Display the Epidemic Outbreaks of Covid-19 in the World
Author(s) -
Raúl Isea
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
international journal of coronaviruses
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2692-1537
DOI - 10.14302/issn.2692-1537.ijcv-20-3498
Subject(s) - outbreak , china , covid-19 , geography , graph , regional science , cartography , demography , history , computer science , virology , sociology , medicine , infectious disease (medical specialty) , archaeology , pathology , disease , theoretical computer science
The paper proposes a new visualization scheme for the registry of Covid-19 cases by calculating the mantissa of the registered ones, so there is no need of performing complicated mathematical calculations. As an example, six countries are randomly selected: Australia, Brazil, China, Colombia, Portugal and Venezuela. The results show that China is the only country that keeps the epidemic under control, while Australia begins a new outbreak after having previously controlled the epidemic. Colombia and Portugal show a very similar behavior of registered cases and, finally, we can see that Venezuela, Brazil, Portugal, and Colombia present a growth of cases that may trigger new outbreaks in the future. Results are obtained from data registered at Johns Hopkins University until July 18th, 2020.